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Twenty-Five Years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Communications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

P. Morrison
P. Morrison*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A.

Abstract

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On this silver anniversary of the first published proposal for a search of the skies to seek communications over interstellar distances, I present a rather personal account of the origins of the proposal, and an appraisal of the new and hopeful status of the search worldwide.

Type
Section I. History and Special Events
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 112: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments , 1985 , pp. 13 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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